Receptacle provided with trays



Nov. 25, 1930. s. F. PRATT RECEPTACLE PROVIDED WITH TRAYS Filed Jan. 21, 1928 INVENTOR "6&5 EPratt ATTORNEY Patented Nov. 25, 1930 UNITED STATE-S PATENT OFFICE.

SEELY F. PRATT, OEZROCHESTEB, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, -TO

UNION CHEST AND CABINET CORPORATION OF RocHEsTER, NEW YORK, A CORPORA- TION OF NEW YORK REGEIETAGLE rnovmnn wrrn TRAYS Application filed January 21, 1928. Serial in. 248,493.

Thepresent invention relates to receptacles provided with trays and an object thereof is to provide a tray construction which may be economically manufactured and will fit without any lost motion in the upper portion of the bottom member of a covered'receptacle. Another object of the invention is to provide an inexpensive construction which will permit the employment of readily removable partitions in the tray.

To these and other ends, the invention consists of certain parts and combinations of parts, all of which will be hereinafter described: the novel features being pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a receptacle constructed in accordance with this invention;

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary longituidnal vertical section through the receptacle;

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary transverse vertical section through the receptacle;

Fig. 4 is a sectional plan view of a portion of the tray to show the manner by which the partitions are held in place;

Fig. 5 is a fragmentary side View of the tray; and

Fig. 6 is a plan view of one of the removable partitions.

In the illustrated embodiment of the invention, 1 indicates the bottom member of the receptacle which has its entire upper edge bent inwardly in a horizontal direction at 2 and thence upwardly at 3 to provide a continuous upwardly projecting flange about *the upper portion of the bottom member 1.

' walls 10. The side walls 8 diverge upwardly with reference to each other and their corresponding wall 9 forming the central partition. The ends of the tray are formed by two separate pieces 11 which have flanges 12 at their edges spot welded to thebottoms 10 and the side walls 8. The upwardly diverging side walls 8 facilitate the introduction of the tray into the upper portion of the bottom member 1 of the receptacle.

\Vith the end in view of supporting the tray within the bottom member 1 of the receptacle, the end walls 11 have rests 12 struck up from the middle thereof and substantially in the form of hooks projecting over the upwardly extending flange 3 at opposite ends of the bottom member, these hooks being situated in spaced relation to the top and the bottom of the tray so thatthe tray projects upwardly into the flanged cover 4. The hooks 12 being made of thin material, do not interfere with the closing of the receptacle bottom member by the cover member 4.

vision of projections 13 on the opposite side walls 8, these projections, in this case, being formed by pressing bossesoutwardly from the metal of the side walls 8 to cooperate with the bottom member 1.

One of the two longitudinally extending chambers of the tray may be divided at will into a number of different compartments and to this end transverse partitions 14 are provided, the lower edges of which have bendable lips 15 and the sides of which diverge upwardly so as to conform to the diverging side walls of the two longitudinally extending chambers. These partitions are received at their edges in guides 16 formed on the inner faces of the walls 8 and 9 of the chambers 7. The tongues are then bent laterally, as shown in Fig. 2, so that they hold the partitions 14 in position in a chamber 7 As the side walls of this chamber 0on verge downwardly and the side edges'of each partition 14 converge downwardly, the single tongue 15 for each partition will hold a partition in place and againstany loose movement. This is due to the binding action between the side edges of the partition and the side walls of the chamber. With this arrangement it is possible to divide a 1ongitudinally extending chamber of a tray into any desired number of compartments at will.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In a receptacle, the combination with a bottom member and a hinged closure therefor, of a tray received within the upper por-' tion of the bottom member and having two opposite side walls diverging upwardly, projections on the diverging side walls cooperating with the side walls of the bottom member to prevent the sidewise movement of the tray and means carried by the end walls of the tray for supporting the tray from the end walls of the bottom member.

2. In a receptacle, the combination with a bottom member and a hinged closure therefor, of a tray received within the upper portion of the bottom member and having vertical end walls and two opposite side walls diverging upwardly, bosses pressed outwardly from the vertical side walls and cooperating with the side walls of the bottom member to prevent the sidewise movement of the tray, and supporting means carried by the vertical end walls of the tray for supporting the tray from the end walls of the bottom member.

3. A tray for receptacles having an elongated chamber, the side walls of which converge to the bottom of the tray and are formed of sheet material and are pressed inwardly at intervals at opposite points to provide pairs of ribs forming grooves between them, partitions having converging side edges received in grooves on opposite sides of the chamber and acting becauseof the converging side walls of the chamber and the converging sides of the partitions to bind in said tray, and separable interlocking means on the loweredges of the partitions and the bottom of the chamber to hold the partitions in position. 4. A tray havinga central longitudinally extending partition formed from a single piece of sheet metal to provide two walls converging toward the top of the partition, the walls being pressed inwardly to provide parallel ribs, in pairs, and partitions in the tray, each having a side edge received between the members of a pair of ribs.

SEELY F. PRATT. 

